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Geologic Unit: Hunsaker Creek

Usage:

Hunsaker Creek Formation of Seven Devils Group (ID*,OR*)


Geologic age:

Permian, Early*
Leonardian*
Guadalupian, early*


Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:

Type section: in SW/4 sec. 5 and NE/4 sec. 6, T. 7 S., R. 48 E., Copperfield 15-min quadrangle, Baker Co., OR (Vallier, 1977).


AAPG geologic province:

Snake River basin*
Idaho Mountains province*


For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.

Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.

"No current usage" (†) implies that a name has been abandoned or has fallen into disuse. Former usage and, if known, replacement name given in parentheses ( ).

Slash (/) indicates name conflicts with nomenclatural guidelines (CSN, 1933; ACSN, 1961, 1970; NACSN, 1983, 2005, 2021). May be explained within brackets ([ ]).